Facebook's minimum age rule.

political analyst

Facebook's rule is that people who wish to set-up pages on its network have to be at least 13 years old (and I am aware that the Government's plan to have the "digital age of consent" set at that age has been defeated in the Dáil).


Obviously, some children who have Facebook pages are under 13.



Why doesn't Facebook verify the ages of those who want to have Facebook profiles? After all, those whizzkids in Silicon Valley must be able to come up with a way of doing that, right?!

Jimmy Dags

Is there a Facebook rep here who can answer this?

Wheety

How would they? It would be a massive task to check over a billion accounts.

You tick a box to say you age appropriate. It's the parent's responsibility if their child is on it. Can't sue Facebook for allowing them as they lied on the sign up form.

irishproduce

Cambridge Analytica have ways to tell what age a person is, they could help

Conall Cernach

Wheety wrote: »

How would they? It would be a massive task to check over a billion accounts.

You tick a box to say you age appropriate. It's the parent's responsibility if their child is on it. Can't sue Facebook for allowing them as they lied on the sign up form.

Yeah it's not like if you're over 18 you can use a credit card to verify age on gambling and porn sites etc. 13 year olds won't be able to do something like that.

dublinbuster

Facebook have many people employed in Ireland.
Government aint going to rock that boat by enforcing a rule that might cost some of these jobs
Anyway its up to the parents to police this type of thing, letting 13 tears old unsupervised access to the internet, having a Facebook account would be the lest of my worries. Lots of brutal gore/porn freely available

Hector Bellend

They should be old enough to put pictures of their titties on there without legal repercussions for the end users

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VinLieger

political analyst wrote: »

Why doesn't Facebook verify the ages of those who want to have Facebook profiles? After all, those whizzkids in Silicon Valley must be able to come up with a way of doing that, right?!

So you are suggesting handing over to facebook even more personal data like passport information, birth certs etc?

Great idea...

Coffee Fulled Runner

Digital consent should have been set at 13

Icaras

Why would they? More users = more €€€€€.

VinLieger

Coffee Fulled Runner wrote: »

Digital consent should have been set at 13

Disagree, it would have made children less safe as parents would have taken it as a green light to stop paying attention to what their children are doing at 13 because the government said that age is okay

Flippyfloppy

Coinbase etc verify identity through passports within 2/3 minutes. Maybe digital age of consent should just be set at a verifiable age, 18.

Pauliedragon

I'd start with the bookies before worrying about social media. I was on the bus a few weeks ago and there was a couple of lads in front of me hammering away on the punt with their phones. They were were 15 years old.

jimmycrackcorm

VinLieger wrote:

Disagree, it would have made children less safe as parents would have taken it as a green light to stop paying attention to what their children are doing at 13 because the government said that age is okay

I'm thinking you don't have kids...

VinLieger

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

I'm thinking you don't have kids...

I do actually and i know plenty of parents who would take this exact attitude mainly due to their own ignorance and laziness to understand the issue